Mobile phone companies make a substantial part of their profits from incoming phone-calls. They charge BT and all the other suppliers an incoming tariff for connecting calls to their handsets or voice-mail. So if you pay your phone company twenty something pence a minute to ring a Vodafone, then they give a few pence of this to Vodafone. In fact it costs more to ring most UK mobiles than it does to ring most European Countries.

Originally it cost more to ring Vodafone and Cellnet than it did to ring Orange or One2one, but now it is often the other way around. The only time when it is even half reasonably priced is at the weekend to  Cellnet. However there are a number of ways of getting the cost down.

One good way is to use a cellphone on the same network. So if you have a One2one phone you can ring another for relatively little; all the more so if you have inclusive minutes to whittle down. Do try to ring off-peak if you can (normally after 7pm and weekends). Use one of the resellers like Vartec who have a standard rate of 11p a minute to most cellphones.

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There are hundreds of  dialing codes that are not the usual mobile networks. We list here all the available codes and their BT rates. This will take at least a minute to download!

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Last modified: July 07, 2001

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